Dance hall facts for kids

A dance hall is a place where people go to dance and talk to each other. It also usually has drinks and lounging, with music and disco lights or lighting of some sort.

Images for kids

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  Dance halls were common in the Old West. This photograph shows customers and staff at Hovey's Dance Hall in Clifton, Arizona, in 1884. The famous author Anton Mazzanovich is standing next to the tree at right.

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  A postcard from the early 20th century, showing the dance pavilion on Cedar Point, Ohio, built in 1882, then labeled "The largest Dance Floor on Lake Erie".

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  The Dance Hall at Toledo Beach in Michigan, 1906

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  The Sivakan lava dance pavilion in Sivakkavaara, Kaavi, Finland has a history of more than a hundred years, as according to some sources, dances have been held on pavilion since 1907.